Viewing Attribute Types

The cn=schema entry has a multivalued attribute, attributeTypes, that contains definitions of each attribute type
in the directory schema. You can read those definitions by using the ldapsearch(1) command.

To View Attribute Types

Use the ldapsearch command to view all the
attribute type definitions that currently exist in your directory schema.

Example 11–2 Viewing Attribute Types

The following command displays definitions for all attribute types:

$ ldapsearch -T -b cn=schema "(objectclass=*)" attributeTypes

The -T option prevents the ldapsearch command
from folding LDIF lines, so you can more easily work with the output using
commands such as grep or sed. If you
then pipe the output of this command through the grep command,
you can view only the user-defined extensions to directory schema. For example: